Bills in the 2019 Regular Session, House.
Janelle Bynum
Sponsored
Became law2
Creates civil cause of action against person who knowingly summons police officer with intent to cause specified harm.
Limits authority of school district to become member of voluntary organization that administers interscholastic activities or that facilitates scheduling and programming of interscholastic activities unless organization addresses specified behavior.
Passed the House1
Authorizes city that was annexed into county service district to petition county board for withdrawal from district.
Out of committee1
Prescribes requirements for removal of student from classroom or school setting by school employees or law enforcement.
In committee1
Requires superintendent of state mental hospital, or director of facility designated by Oregon Health Authority, to ensure that defendant committed for lacking fitness to proceed receives treatment designed to allow defendant to attain defendant's highest level of health, safety and independence and prepare defendant for eventual release into community.
Carried from the Senate
Became law1
Expands definition of "natural hair care" to include shampooing and conditioning.
Co-sponsored
Became law · 25
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide partially or fully compensated time away from work to covered individual who meets certain criteria while covered individual is on family leave, medical leave or safe leave.
Requires specified professional regulatory boards to require persons authorized to practice professions regulated by board to complete cultural competency continuing education.
Eliminates requirement that person provide proof of legal presence before Department of Transportation issues noncommercial driver license, noncommercial driver permit or identification card.
Provides right to collectively bargain with State of Oregon to health care interpreters .
Designates May of each year as ALS Awareness Month.
Modifies culpable mental state for crime of unauthorized use of a vehicle when person takes, operates, exercises control over or otherwise uses vehicle, boat or aircraft without consent of owner.
Directs Department of State Police to study how to increase and improve criminal justice resources relating to missing and murdered Native American women in Oregon and report to appropriate committee or interim committee of Legislative Assembly no later than September 15, 2020.
Directs Department of Corrections, in cooperation with Oregon Criminal Justice Commission, to establish pilot program to provide legal services that assist women who are incarcerated at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility to reenter and reintegrate into local communities, to reduce womens' vulnerability to domestic violence and to obtain employment, housing services and other benefits.
Requires outfitters and guides to rent, sell or otherwise make available helmets to all passengers on any section of waters rated as class III or higher on commonly accepted scale of river difficulty.
Appropriates moneys to Department of Consumer and Business Services to contract with vendor to conduct demographic study of dental needs and geographic distribution of COFA citizens in this state and to issue request for information to gauge interest and determine capacity of dental care organizations to provide oral health care to COFA citizens.
Permits contracting agency, in conducting procurement for architectural, engineering, photogrammetric mapping, transportation planning and land surveying services, to consider pricing policies, proposals and other pricing information as part of screening and selection of consultants in specified circumstances.
Modifies provisions of state law regarding custody of children or youth who have run away from home or placement to apply to all runaways.
Allows student to wear dress uniform issued by Armed Forces of United States during high school graduation ceremony if certain conditions are met.
Requires that for person who completes prior educational requirements to participate in Oregon Promise program while confined in correctional facility, six-month period to enroll in courses to participate in program begins after person is first released from correctional facility.
Prohibits court from inquiring into defendant's immigration status or requiring defendant to disclose defendant's immigration status at time of plea or at any other time during criminal proceeding.
Authorizes governing body of county with population of more than 570,000 to set maximum dollar amount of $25,000 or more, or dollar amount adopted by county, for total assessed value of all of taxpayer's manufactured structures taxable as personal property, below which such manufactured structures are not subject to ad valorem property taxation for assessment year.
Allows professional licensing board to issue nonrenewable temporary authorization to spouse of member of Armed Forces of United States stationed in Oregon and who holds eligible out-of-state authorization to provide occupational or professional service.
Expands membership of Justice Reinvestment Program Grant Review Committee.
Provides that individual may not be disqualified for unemployment insurance benefits for voluntarily leaving work, failing to apply for available suitable work or failing to accept suitable work, if individual or member of individual's immediate family was victim of conduct that, in determination of Director of Employment Department, more likely than not constitutes crime of intimidation, individual believes that individual or immediate family member could become victim of such conduct or individual seeks to protect individual or immediate family member from such conduct that individual reasonably believes will occur as a result of individual's continued employment or acceptance of work.
Provides that agreement for conditional discharge for controlled substance offenses may not contain requirement that defendant enter plea of guilty or no contest.
Allows person with hardship driver permit to provide necessary services to person or member of person's family.
Provides that client has right to privately communicate with lawyer and representative of lawyer.
Modifies requirement to record interview with person under 18 years of age to include custodial interviews conducted inside law enforcement facility by peace officer, school resource officer or special campus security officer of investigations into misdemeanors, felonies and acts that, if committed by adult, would constitute misdemeanors or felonies.
Limits extension that Land Use Board of Appeals may provide petitioner whose objection to record is denied to 14 days from later of original deadline or date of denial.
Prohibits school district, community college district and certain education service district elections from being conducted in manner that impairs ability of members of protected class to have equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice as result of dilution or abridgment of rights of electors who are members of protected class.
Passed the House · 2
Alters commissioner composition of Higher Education Coordinating Commission by redesignating five current nonvoting positions as voting positions and by adding one additional position for graduate student attending public university.
Prohibits person from mailing or shipping inhalant delivery system without meeting certain requirements.
Out of committee · 3
Requires owner or possessor of firearm to secure firearm with trigger or cable lock or in locked container except in specified circumstances.
Requires transportation network company that operates in this state to obtain license from Department of Transportation.
Creates family and medical leave insurance program to provide employee who is eligible for coverage with portion of wages while employee is on family and medical leave or military family leave.
In committee · 14
Authorizes State Treasurer to issue Article XI-Q general obligation bonds to finance construction and improvement of courthouses.
Appropriates moneys from General Fund to Higher Education Coordinating Commission for distribution to community colleges and community college service districts for various purposes.
Requires youth to consult with legal counsel, in person, by telephone or by video conference, prior to custodial interview with peace officer and before waiver of constitutional rights.
Establishes grant program for purpose of improving kindergarten student-to-teacher ratios in schools that are considered high poverty.
Clarifies meaning of "because of age" in employment discrimination law.
Directs Director of Transportation to require each region described in Act to conduct jurisdictional transfer evaluation and present report on evaluations to Joint Committee on Transportation no later than September 15, 2020.
Prohibits person from mailing or shipping inhalant delivery system without meeting certain requirements.
Directs Housing and Community Services Department to conduct study to estimate amount of additional homeless shelter capacity necessary in each county and cost of building or acquiring such capacity.
Requires pharmaceutical manufacturers to report to Department of Consumer and Business Services total cost of patient assistance programs and information on financial assistance provided to pharmacies, government agencies and advocacy organizations.
Authorizes issuance of general obligation bonds for Interstate 205: Stafford Road to State Highway 213 Project.
Removes future dangerousness as factor for jury to determine when deciding on sentence of death.
Makes unlawful employment practice for employer to request employee to enter agreement that would prevent employee from disclosing or discussing conduct that constitutes unlawful discrimination, including sexual assault.
Prohibits police officer from conducting or participating in activities intended to determine whether person has paid certain user charges, fees or tolls imposed by mass transit district.
Requires amendment of state building code to include special inspections to detect construction defects in exterior waterproofing system of common property of homeowners association, residential dwelling in planned community served by homeowners association or condominium.